Reports on developments in public finance and local government in Great Britain as of April 25, 1997. Includes the awarding of over 1.5 million-pound audit contract to Coopers & Lybrand by the London borough of Lambeth; Polls on May 1, 1997 by 36 county councils and 19 shadow unitary...

Reports on developments in public finance and local government in Great Britain as of March 28, 1997. Includes the Local Government Association's call for the abolition of capping; Need for regulators to use their influence to prevent the rise of utility bosses' salaries to unjustified levels.

Lists developments related to public finance in Great Britain as of April 1997. Launch of the Local Government Association; Creation of 13 unitary councils; Local education authorities' expenses in real terms per pupil; Savings on benefit fraud hotline calls; Post-tax deficits for 19 training...

Reports on developments in public finance and local government in Great Britain as of September 26, 1997. Includes the merger plans of Coopers & Lybrand and Price Waterhouse; Call by public service and communications unions for the National Savings to offer a low-cost alternative to personal...

Reports on the changes made by Great Britain's Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott in local government funding and spending. Percentage increase in the Total Standard Spending; Alterations made to the Standard Spending Assessment formula.

Presents a round-up of news related to public finance and local government in Great Britain recent as of April 2001. Scotland's payment of compensation to local authorities as a result of the examination results fiasco; Private Finance Initiative scheme for schools; Participation of public...

Reports on developments in public finance and local government in Great Britain as of October 10, 1997. Includes the widening gap between the poorest pensioners and their richer peers; Finding that lone mothers who enter low-paid work and are supplemented by in-work benefits find it difficult...

Reports on the adverse effect of the British government's plan to implement a new deprivation index on London boroughs, according to the Association of London Government. Possibility that boroughs will lose money in regeneration aid; Index of Local Deprivation compiled by Oxford University.